Word: ballots
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...Labour, since a hung Parliament would surely result in a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition. British voters did not want the uncertainty of either a minority or coalition government. Voters may also have become convinced -- Ross Perot, take note -- that a vote for a third party is a wasted ballot...
...voted for a non-Tory future. "Their voices will be heard," he pledged. "I am the Prime Minister for all this country, and I will never forget that." Secure but no longer impregnable in Parliament, Major and his Conservatives need quickly to address the serious discontent registered at the ballot box. Britons may not have thrown the bums out, as anti-incumbent forces have been urging elsewhere, but they gave the government a formidable scare...
Tsongas remained on the New York ballot after he suspended his campaign on March 19. For anyone who wanted to lodge a protest vote against Clinton but couldn't stomach Brown, or vice versa, Tsongas' sober message of economic growth offered an appealing alternative. "Tsongas is Greek for 'none of the above,' " quipped political analyst Kevin Phillips. Buoyed by his showing, Tsongas weighed a possible re-entry into the race for two days before deciding to stay out. He saw no real chance of winning the nomination and refused to be a spoiler, a term that bothered Brown...
Known to everyone as Jerry, Brown went on the 1970 California ballot as "Edmund G. Brown...
Finally there was the ghost of Paul Tsongas, whose name remains on the New York ballot despite the suspension of his candidacy last month. In one poll, Tsongas retains a higher favorability rating (40%) than either Brown or Clinton...